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BALTIMORE, MD — Attorney General Anthony G. Brown today released the following statement in response to the Supreme Court of the United States’ decision in Louisiana v. Callais, in which the Court, in a 6-3 ruling, significantly weakened Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, making it more difficult to challenge racially discriminatory redistricting maps:
“The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was written because generations of Americans, Black Americans in particular, were systematically locked out of the fundamental right that makes all other rights possible: the right to vote. Today, the Supreme Court dealt a devastating blow to that law, and to the people it was written to protect. This decision guts a signature achievement of the civil rights movement and moves the nation away from its highest ideals.
Maryland will not stand idly by as decades of civil rights protections are dismantled, nor will this Office stand down. I was proud to support the Maryland Voting Rights Act of 2026, which Governor Moore signed into law just yesterday. Maryland did not wait for Washington to act. We built our own backstop. Today’s ruling makes that law more important than ever.
The right to vote is the foundation of everything we are as a democracy. I will not stop fighting to defend it.”
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